Working on our oral communication

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

We have been working all year on getting away from the "Je vois..." sentences that my kids know and love. Today we played a "game" to ensure they started their sentences differently. I had one pile of my word wall sentence starters (here) and one of our spring word wall words (here). I picked the vocabulary words they already know from grade 1. I chose one student to pick a sentence starter (without looking), and one to pick our vocabulary word. They we *dramatically* flipped them over at the same time and put them into a pocket chart.

In groups of 2-3, they then came up with sentences (orally) that started with the sentence prompt and contained the vocabulary word. My students got really into it! I also loved the results, because they automatically had to step up their game with their sentence structures. This was drastically different to the "Je vois (#) (colour) (object)" sentences that they are used to creating. Here are some of the really cool sentences they came up with: Pourquoi est-ce que les oiseaux sont nés dans les œufs?Quand je vois l'herbe vert, c'est le printemps. Dans mon sac a dos, il y a une abeille. L'abeille m'a piqué. Est-ce que tu as un bain d'oiseau à ta maison?

SO fun! Although they didn't understand what I was so excited about, they seemed to have also had fun :)